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Fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's team épée

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Men's team épée
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Olympic fencing
VenueMakuhari Messe
Date30 July 2021
Competitors34 from 9 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Koki Kano
Kazuyasu Minobe
Masaru Yamada
Satoru Uyama
 Japan
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Sergey Bida
Sergey Khodos
Pavel Sukhov
Nikita Glazkov
 ROC
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Park Sang-young
Ma Se-geon
Song Jae-ho
Kweon Young-jun
 South Korea
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The men's team épée event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 30 July 2021 at the Makuhari Messe.[1] 27 fencers (9 teams of 3) from 9 nations competed.[2] The competition was won by Japan, with Russian Olympic athletes taking silver and South Korea bronze. The previous medal of Russia in men's team épée was in 1996; Japan and South Korea never medaled in this event. The 2016 champions and silver medalist, Italy and France, did not make it to the semifinals, the bronze medalist, Hungary, did not quality for the Olympics.

Background

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This will be the 25th appearance of the event, which has been held at every Summer Olympics since 1908 except 2012 (during the time when team events were rotated off the schedule, with only two of the three weapons for each of the men's and women's categories).

The reigning Olympic champion is France (Gauthier Grumier, Yannick Borel, Daniel Jérent, and Jean-Michel Lucenay); France has won the last three Olympic Games. France is also the reigning World Champion, with Borel, Jérent, Ronan Gustin, and Alexandre Bardenet on the 2019 winning team.

Qualification

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A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter a team of 3 fencers in the men's team épée. These fencers also automatically qualified for the individual event.[2]

There are 8 dedicated quota spots for men's team épée. They are allocated as through the world team ranking list of 5 April 2021. The top 4 spots, regardless of geographic zone, qualify (France, Italy, Ukraine, and Switzerland). The next four spots are allocated to separate geographic zones, as long as an NOC from that zone is in the top 16. These places went to South Korea (Asia/Oceania), the United States (Americas), and ROC (Europe); no team from Africa was in the top 16, so the place was reallocated to the next-best team regardless of zone: China.[2]

Additionally, there are 8 host/invitational spots that can be spread throughout the various fencing events.[2] Japan qualified one men's épée fencer through normal individual qualification and used two host quota places to complete a men's épée team.

The COVID-19 pandemic delayed many of the events for qualifying for fencing, moving the close of the rankings period back to April 5, 2021 rather than the original April 4, 2020.[2][3]

Competition format

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The 2020 tournament is a single-elimination tournament, with classification matches for all places. Each match features the three fencers on each team competing in a round-robin, with 9 three-minute bouts to 5 points; the winning team is the one that reaches 45 total points first or is leading after the end of the nine bouts. Standard épée rules regarding target area, striking, and priority are used.[4][5]

Schedule

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The competition is held over a single day, Friday, 30 July. The first session runs from 10 a.m. to approximately 3:20 p.m. (when all matches except the bronze and gold medal finals are expected to conclude), after which there is a break until 6:30 p.m. before the medal bouts are held.[1]

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Date Time Round
Friday, 30 July 2021 10:00
 
 
 
 
18:30
 
Round of 16
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Classification 7/8
Classification 5/6
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match

Results

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Round of 16Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
              
 France44
 Japan45
 United States39
 Japan45
 Japan45
 South Korea38
 South Korea44
 Switzerland39
 Japan45
 ROC36
 Ukraine35
 China45
 China38
 ROC45 Bronze medal bout
 ROC45 South Korea45
 Italy34  China42

5–8th place classification

 
5–8th place semifinalsFifth place bout
 
      
 
 
 
 
 France45
 
 
 
 Switzerland37
 
 France45
 
 
 
 Ukraine39
 
 Ukraine45
 
 
 Italy39
 
Seventh place bout
 
 
 
 
 
 Switzerland34
 
 
 Italy36

Final classification

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Rank Team Athlete
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Japan Koki Kano
Kazuyasu Minobe
Masaru Yamada
Satoru Uyama
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  ROC Sergey Bida
Sergey Khodos
Pavel Sukhov
Nikita Glazkov
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  South Korea Park Sang-young
Ma Se-geon
Song Jae-ho
Kweon Young-jun
4  China Dong Chao
Lan Minghao
Wang Zijie
5  France Alexandre Bardenet
Yannick Borel
Romain Cannone
Ronan Gustin
6  Ukraine Ihor Reizlin
Bohdan Nikishyn
Roman Svichkar
Anatoliy Herey
7  Italy Andrea Santarelli
Enrico Garozzo
Gabriele Cimini
Marco Fichera
8  Switzerland Max Heinzer
Lucas Malcotti
Michele Niggeler
Benjamin Steffen
9  United States Jacob Hoyle
Curtis McDowald
Yeisser Ramirez

References

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  1. ^ a b "Fencing Competition Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Fencing" (PDF). Fédération Internationale d'Escrime. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 May 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  3. ^ Academy of Fencing Masters
  4. ^ NBC
  5. ^ "Fencing". Archived from the original on 3 July 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
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